source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 03:35:41 -0700 Subject: Differential notes - Baka Pygmies From: vincent.kenis@infoboard.be (Vincent Kenis) David R. Canright said : >That's a very interesting idea you propose, of adaptive vocal inflection >organized around pentatonic scales. You mention measuring basic steps of >7/6, >8/7, and 9/8. As it happens, Rick Tagawa, a composer who studied >ethnomusicology at UCLA, used the same intervals in reconstructing African >scales (I can't remember from where). However, the particular scale he used >in composing with an African sound was: > >tones: 1/1 8/7 21/16 3/2 7/4 >steps: 8/7 147/128 8/7 7/6 8/7 > >which has the unusual step 147/128 (239.6 cents), rather close in size to an >8/7 (231.2 cents) step, and has no 9/8. > I thank him for his comment. I'd like to find a way to locate Rick Tagawa. I encountered some examples of the scale described above too, but I explained the presence of 147/128 (239.6 cents) by this operation : 7/6 (267) + 9/8 (204) - 8/7 (231) = 240 cents. Vincent Kenis Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 19:39 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA15433; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:38:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:38:45 -0700 Message-Id: <9510251036.aa13232@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu